Professor Feng Shao (Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Deputy Director of National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing) visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the afternoon of September 21, 2018. He was warmly received by Professor Ming-Wei Wang, Director of the National Center for Drug Screening/Chinese National Compound Library and Dean, School of Pharmacy, Fudan University. After touring the R&D facility at CNCL, he participated in a roundtable discussion with some senior scientists, key technical staff and graduate students from the National Center for Drug Screening and CNCL. Professor Shao was deeply impressed by the operating mechanism, management style and cultural atmosphere at CNCL.