Accompanied by Ms. Dongying Lu (Program Manager, Division of Technology Transfer, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences), a delegation led by Mr. Zhonghui Zhang (Director, Technology and Innovation Bureau and Chairman, Science and Technology Association, Futian District, Shenzhen) visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the morning of December 17, 2019. They were warmly received by Dr. Ming-Wei Wang (Director of the National Center for Drug Screening/CNCL and Dean of School of Pharmacy, Fudan University). The honorable guests highly commended the foundation principles, operating mechanisms and innovation achievements of this national resource-sharing platform for drug discovery.