In the morning of March 19, 2018, Drs. Patrick M. Sexton, Denise Wootten and Yi-Lynn Liang from Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (Melbourne, Australia) visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL). They discussed in great detail about the latest progresses and follow-up plans for several collaborative research projects with Drs. Ming-Wei Wang (Director of the National Center for Drug Screening/Chinese National Compound Library and Dean of School of Pharmacy, Fudan University), Beili Wu (Professor) and Dehua Yang (Professor) from Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica (SIMM), Chinese Academy of Sciences. Dr. Di Zhu (Associate Professor), graduate students Rulve Chang and Mei Feng from Fudan School of Pharmacy; Mr. Antao Dai (Assistant Professor), Ms. Xiaoqing Cai (Senior Technician), graduate students Haonan Zhang, Anna Qiao, Yue Zhu, Saifei Lei, Sanaz Darbalaei and Elita Yuliantie from SIMM; and graduate student Lijun Shao from ShanghaiTech University participated in the discussion.