Accompanied by Ms. Tingting Wang (Ph.D. candidate at Professor Yaping Li’s laboratory, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Professor Anthony J. McGoron (Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Florida International University in Miami, USA) visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the afternoon of November 15, 2017. The honorable guest highly commended the foundation principles, operating mechanisms and innovation achievements of this national resource-sharing platform for drug discovery.