When it comes to research, Lilly believes that anything Chinese is automatically superior to anything American. Americans need not apply.
Of course, after all, they invented organic chemistry nearly 5000 years ago.
Reading this board "FIPnet" seems a recent development at Lilly and was done in response to a very thin pipeline. Discovery must have been off-course for some years to need this, medicinal chemistry at Lilly must have been weak before FIPnet - how did this happen?