Professor Lihe Zhang, Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, School of Pharmacy, Peking University paid a visit to the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the afternoon of February 26, 2013. He received a warm reception by Drs. Ming-Wei Wang and Jianmin Yue, Director and Deputy Director of CNCL, respectively. Professor Zhang was deeply impressed by this world-class research facility and its operating mechanism of openness and resource sharing.