Led by Mr. Wenjia Chen (Deputy Director, Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of Shanghai Municipality), more than two dozen of participants of “New Overseas Chinese Salon – Discover Secrets of Research and Development of Drugs” visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the afternoon of September 11, 2015. They were accompanied by Mr. Hongbo Shen (Section Head of Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of Shanghai Municipality) and Professor Jianping Zuo from Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, among others. A warm reception was given by Dr. Ming-Wei Wang, Director of CNCL. The honorable guests were deeply impressed by the operating mechanisms, service-oriented approaches and advanced technologies at CNCL.