Accompanied by Dr. Jianqing Mi, Head of Hematology Department, Ruijin Hospital, Dr. Saadi Khochbin, 1st Class Research Director at CNRS of France visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the afternoon of October 24, 2012. A warm reception was given by Drs. Yang Ye (Deputy Director), Minjia Tan and Wei Huang of Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The guests were deeply impressed by this world class facility and its cultural environment, and expressed their willingness to forge bilateral personnel exchange and academic collaborations.