Professor Mark Wainberg, Director of McGill AIDS Centre, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital affiliated to McGill University (Montreal, Canada) visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the morning of November 26, 2014. He was warmly greeted by Drs. Ming-Wei Wang and Jianmin Yue, Director and Deputy Director of CNCL, respectively. Professor Wainberg highly commended the open innovation model and its achievements at CNCL.