Accompanied by Dr. Yueming Xu (Functional Platform Director of iHuman Institute, ShanghaiTech University), Professor Raul Gainetdinov from Institute of Translational Biomedicine, Saint-Petersburg State University of Russia visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the afternoon of October 31, 2016. He was warmly greeted by Professor Ming-Wei Wang (Director of the National Center for Drug Screening/CNCL and Dean, School of Pharmacy, Fudan University) at Fudan School of Pharmacy prior to his arrival at CNCL. The honorable guest highly commended the foundation principles, operating mechanisms and innovation achievements of this national resource-sharing platform for drug discovery. Associate Professor Yan Li (Assistant Dean) and Ms. Lulu Zhai (Foreign Affairs Assistant) from Fudan School of Pharmacy participated in the visit.