Accompanied by Professor Jianhua Hu (Executive Deputy Director of Fudan University Zhangjiang Research Institute), Deputy Director-General Runsheng Gao (Department of Science & Technology, the Ministry of Education) and more than 130 participants of the University Science Park High Quality Development in the New Era Workshop organized by the Ministry of Education visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the afternoon of April 10, 2018. They were warmly greeted by Professor Ming-Wei Wang (Director, the National Center for Drug Screening/CNCL and Dean, School of Pharmacy, Fudan University). The honorable guests toured the entire facility enthusiastically and highly commended the foundation principles, operating mechanisms and innovation achievements of this national resource-sharing platform for drug discovery.