Accompanied by Ms. Dongying Lu (Project Officer, Technology Transfer Department of Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Professor Ruth Slack (Vice Dean), Dr. Alain Stintzi, Dr. Daniel Figeys, Dr. Jean-Francois Couture, Dr. Stephen Ferguson, Dr. Marker Walker and Dr. Mary Ellen Harper from Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Canada visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the morning of May 9, 2018. They were warmly greeted by Professor Dehua Yang (Professor of Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences). The honorable guests highly commended the foundation principles, operating mechanisms and innovation achievements of this national resource-sharing platform for drug discovery.