Accompanied by Professor Yang Ye (Deputy Director of Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Professor Huaqiang Xu, Professor Yingming Zhao and Ms. Dongying Lu (Project officer, Technology Transfer Department, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Mr. Alexis Borisy (Partner of Third Rock Ventures) and Mr. Alan Huang (Chief Scientific Officer, Tango Therapeutics) visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the morning of October 29, 2018. The honorable guests highly commended the foundation principles, operating mechanisms and innovation achievements of this national resource-sharing platform for drug discovery.