Professor James P. Tam, Director of Drug Discovery Centre, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) and his wife visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the morning of November 2, 2012.  They were accompanied by Professor Xiaoliang Wang of Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and briefed by Professor Ming-Wei Wang with the development, culture and prospect of the library. Professor Tam appreciated highly the operating mechanism, management style and innovative culture at CNCL.