A research and development (R&D) executive group from Unilever visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the afternoon of September 22, 2015. They included Drs. Jim Crilly (Senior Vice President, Unilever UK), Paul-Van-Der Logt (Director, Natural Functional Actives, Unilever Netherlands), Gail Jenkins (Program Director, Cell Biology and Genomics, Unilever UK), Janette Jones (Director, Systems Biology, Unilever UK), Vijay Gadgil (Director, Naturals and Traditional Medicine, Unilever India), Warren Zhou (R&D Leader, Unilever Shanghai) and Ms. Nancy Gu (Open Innovation Manager, Unilever Shanghai). The honorable guests were astonished by the level of internationalization of this state-run R&D facility.