Accompanied by Professor Yang Ye (Deputy Director of Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Professor Jacques Frémont (President and Vice-Chancellor), Professor Mona Nemer (Vice President) and Dr. Yuwei Wang (Assistant Dean, Ottawa-Shanghai Joint School of Medicine) from University of Ottawa (Canada) visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the morning of October 9, 2016. They were warmly greeted by Professor Ming-Wei Wang (Director of CNCL). The honorable guests highly commended the foundation principles, operating mechanisms and innovation achievements of this national resource-sharing platform for drug discovery.