A group of domestic and international guests including Drs. Xuerong Xing (Vice President), Ke Ding (Professor), Hongjie Yao (Professor), Qiang Zhu (Professor) and Shengxian Lu (Associate Professor) from Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, as well as Dr. Bharat Rao, Head of Innovations Center, Siemens Health Services (USA),visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the morning of August 21, 2012. They received a warm reception by Professor Ming-Wei Wang who briefly introduced the current status of this state key research establishment. The guests were deeply impressed by the first-class research infrastructure and rich cultural environment of CNCL.