Dr. Maryann L. Shen (Applications & Solutions Marketing Director, Mass Spectrometry Division), Mr. Zhigang Meng (Laboratory Solutions Academia and Research District Sales Manager) and Ms. Yu Jiang (Client manager, Life Sciences Division) from Agilent Technologies (China) Co., Ltd. visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the afternoon of May 13, 2019. They were warmly greeted by Professor Dehua Yang (Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences). The honorable guests toured the R&D facilities at CNCL and highly commended the foundation principles, operating mechanisms and innovation achievements of this national resource-sharing platform for drug discovery.