Accompanied by Professor Lefu Lan (Professor of Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences), a delegation from Innovate UK visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the afternoon of November 24, 2017. The honorable guests highly commended the foundation principles, operating mechanisms and innovation achievements of this national resource-sharing platform for drug discovery. Ms. Fang Ma (AMR Innovation Fund Project Officer of British Embassy in Beijing) and Ms. Bronte Zhang (Senior Science and Innovation Officer of British Consulate-General in Shanghai) participated in this reception.