Dr. Huaijin Qin, Director General of the Science, Technology and Education Department of National Health and Family Planning Commission (STED-NHFPC) of the People's Republic of China, inspected the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the morning of March 18, 2015. He was accompanied by Professor Kaixian Chen, (Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences), Dr. Meiyu Geng (Deputy Director of Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Mr. Jun Li (Deputy Director of Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica) and Dr. Jia Li (Deputy Director of Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica).  Professor Ming-Wei Wang, Director of CNCL, briefly reported the achievements made in the past there plus years in organizational development and external services of this national resource platform for drug discovery. Professor Kan Zhang, Director of Department of Science and Education, Shanghai Municipal Commission of Health and Family Planning, participated in the inspection.