In the afternoon of July 3, 2017, Professor Hong Liu, Professor Beili Wu and Associate Professor Jiang Wang (Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences) met with Professor Ming-Wei Wang (Director of the National Center for Drug Screening/Chinese National Compound Library and Dean of School of Pharmacy, Fudan University) and Associate Professor Dehua Yang (Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences) at the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL). They discussed recent progresses made in their collaboration projects, issues that need to be dealt with and the near-term priorities associated with these projects.