Professor Dagne Ermias of Ariti Herbal, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, his daughter, Ms. Beza Ermias and Dr. Norbert Arnold from Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry (Germany) visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the morning of October 25, 2014. They were accompanied by Professor Yang Ye, Deputy Director of Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences. A warm reception was given by Professor Ming-Wei Wang, Director of CNCL.