Dr. Emiel van Galen (Deputy Secretary and Head of Botanicals and Novel Foods) and one of his colleagues from Medicines Evaluation Board (MEB), The Netherlands, visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the afternoon of July 21, 2014. They were accompanied by Drs. De-An Guo, Yiping Wang and Lijiang Xuan of Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences. A warm reception was given by Professor Ming-Wei Wang, Director of CNCL.