Professor Xiaoyu Li (Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Dr. Qiqun Tang (Vice Dean of Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University) and Dr. Min Yu (Deputy Director, the Kay Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Ministry of Education, Fudan University) visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the afternoon of June 6, 2012. Professor Ming-Wei Wang briefly introduced the development, culture and prospect of the library. The guests were very impressed with the scale and infrastructure of this state-of-the-art research facility, and expressed that they would follow-up the development of CNCL and promote collaborations and exchanges.