Accompanied by Dr. Sheng Yao (Member of Professor Ye Yang’s research team, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences) and Dr. Jia Liu (Head of Servier Joint Laboratory, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Professor Ermias Dagne and Assistant Professor Mesfin Getachew from Department of Chemistry, Addis Ababa University (The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia) visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the afternoon of September 3, 2018. The honorable guests highly commended the foundation principles, operating mechanisms and innovation achievements of this national resource-sharing platform for drug discovery.