Accompanied by Professor Cong Li (Assistant Dean, School of Pharmacy, Fudan University), Professor Hairong Zheng (Vice President, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology and Director, Institute of Biomedical and Health Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences) visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the morning of October 13, 2016. The honorable guest highly commended the founding principles, operating mechanisms and innovation achievements of this national resource-sharing platform for drug discovery.