Professor Qilin Zhou, Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Director of Institute of Organic Element Chemistry and State Key Laboratory for Organic Element Chemistry, Nankai University paid a visit to the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the afternoon of December 27, 2012. He received a warm reception by Dr. Fajun Nan, Deputy Director of CNCL. Professor Zhou was deeply impressed by this world-class research facility and its operating mechanism of openness and resource sharing.