Accompanied by Dr. Shuhong Guan (Director of Commercial Cooperation and Industrialization, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica), Mr. Shizhuan Zhang (Director, Division of Asian and African Affairs, Bureau of International Cooperation), Mr. Yiqi Jiang (Deputy Director) and Qingfeng Wang (Deputy Director of Wuhan Botanical Garden) from Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) as well as Mr. Yi Wen (Vice President of Oriental Scientific Instrument Import & Export Group Corporation) visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the morning of May 25, 2016. Dr. Ming-Wei Wang (Director of CNCL) warmly received them and briefed them in detail with the foundation principles, operating mechanisms and latest achievements of this national resource-sharing platform for drug discovery.