In the morning of March 27, 2018, Drs. Gang Liu (Senior Program Officer, Global Health Discovery & Translational Sciences, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation), Ning Qin, (Chief Scientific Officer, Global Health Drug Discovery Institute GHDDI), Xin-Jie Chu (Director and Head of Medicinal Chemistry, GHDDI) and Wen Xiong (Director of Scientific Program, GHDDI) visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL). They were warmly received by Drs. Kaixian Chen (Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chairman of Shanghai Science and Technology Association), Ming-Wei Wang (Director of the National Center for Drug Screening/Chinese National Compound Library and Dean of School of Pharmacy, Fudan University) and Liming Shao (Director of Shanghai Center for Drug Discovery & Development). The honorable guests tour the research facility at CNCL accompanied by Professor Ming-Wei Wang, and carried out a productive discussion with the hosts relative to forging a substantial collaboration focusing on drug innovation for diseases of poverty. Professor Dehua Yang, Senior Engineer Yingyan Jiang, Senior Engineer Jia Wang from Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, as well as Associate Professor Tao Sun from School of Pharmacy, Fudan University participated in the discussion.