Several members of the expert panel assembled for performance review at of Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica (SIMM), Chinese Academy of Sciences, visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the afternoon of August 31, 2014. They were accompanied by Drs. Yang Ye and Jia Li, deputy directors of SIMM, among others, and warmly received by Drs. Ming-Wei Wang and Fajun Nan, Director and Deputy Director of CNCL, respectively. The honorable guests were deeply impressed by this world-class research facility and its operating mechanism of openness and resource sharing.