In the afternoon of December 13, 2016, a roundtable discussion was held at the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) relative to a research project entitled “Standards of development, management and application of large-scale compound libraries”. The meeting was chaired by Senior Engineer Yingyan Jiang. Mr. Liren Peng (Secretary of Consulting Center, Shanghai Association of Standardization and Shanghai Technical Committee on Standardization Services) was invited to attend the meeting. Professor Ming-Wei Wang (Director of the National Center for Drug Screening/CNCL and Dean, School of Pharmacy, Fudan University) warmly greeted him. The project team members including such Senior Engineer Jia Wang, Engineers Jiuqing Tan, Xiaoyan Wu and Hui Zhang were present. They mainly discussed the execution progress and guideline amendment. This project is sponsored by Shanghai Municipality Science and Technology Commission.