Professor Zhijian James Chen, George L. MacGregor Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Science, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the morning of September 2, 2013. He was warmly received by Professor Hualiang Jiang, Deputy Director of Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Professor Ming-Wei Wang, Director of CNCL.