Accompanied by Professor Yang Ye (Deputy Director of Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Mr. Phillippe Carlevan (Director of International Relations, Université Paris Descartes) visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the afternoon of November 7, 2017. 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). The honorable guest highly commended the foundation principles, operating mechanisms and innovation achievements of this national resource-sharing platform for drug discovery.