Accompanied by Professor Qiang Zhao of Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor Hartmut Michel (1988 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry and Director of Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Germany) and Professor Guohong Peng (Max Planck Institute of Biophysics) visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the afternoon of September 13, 2016. They were warmly greeted by Professor Ming-Wei Wang (Director of CNCL) and Associate Professor Dehua Yang. The honorable guests were briefed by Dr. Wang with the foundation principles, operating mechanisms and latest achievements of this national resource-sharing platform for drug discovery.