Accompanied by Professor Yang Ye (Deputy Director of Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Ms. Dongying Lu (Project Officer, Technology Transfer Department of Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences) and Dr. Jia Liu (Head of Servier Joint Laboratory), a six-member delegation from Servier of France led by Dr. Claude Bertrand (Chief Scientific Officer) visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the afternoon of April 18, 2018. The delegates included Drs. Patrick Genissel (Director of Centre of Excellence for Biopharmaceutical Development), Christophe Thurieau (Global Head of External R&D Collaboration), Jennifer Yang (Director of Research, Asia-Pacific Region), Pierre Renard (Senior Advisor) and Xuan Wang (Senior Advisor). The honorable guests were very satisfied with the research progresses made by the "Joint Laboratory for Drug Discovery" located within CNCL.