Accompanied by Mr. Qiang Sun (Human Resource Department of Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences) and Madam Jing Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences Shanghai Branch), Madam Xiaoming Wang (CCP Committee Secretary of Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Madam Shuxia Yang (Former CCP Committee Secretary of Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Madam Haiyan Gu (Chief of Human Resource Department, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences), Madam Ping Cheng (Chief of Human Resource and Education Department, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences) and Mr. Zhiguo Xu (Deputy Chief of Human Resource Department, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing Branch) visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the afternoon of September 13, 2016. Professor Ming-Wei Wang (Director of the National Center for Drug Screening/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. The honorable guests toured the entire CNCL facility with interest and highly appreciated its operating mechanisms, service-oriented approaches and advanced technologies.