Accompanied by Dr. Sheng Yao from Professor Ye Yang’s research team, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor Chrissy Rootes of Commonwealth Science and Industries Research Organization, Australia visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the morning of April 12, 2018. The honorable guest toured the entire facility of CNCL and highly commended the foundation principles, operating mechanisms and innovation achievements of this national resource-sharing platform for drug discovery.