Accompanied by Professor Zhaobing Gao (Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences), seven honorable guests from Xin Xing Cathay International Group and Hainan Haiyao Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the afternoon of May 27, 2020. The honorable guests highly commended the foundation principles, operating mechanisms and innovation achievements of this national resource-sharing platform for drug discovery.