Accompanied by Officer Fenghuan Gao (Office of Commercial Cooperation and Industrialization, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Dr. Anthony Tsarbopoulos (Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of Athens Medical School, Greece) visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the afternoon of September 22, 2016. He was warmly greeted by Professor Ming-Wei Wang (Director of CNCL and Dean of School of Pharmacy, Fudan University), Associate Professor Yan Li (Fudan School of Pharmacy) and Ms. Lulu Zhai (Foreign Affairs Assistant, Fudan School of Pharmacy). Dr. Wang briefed him with the foundation principles, operating mechanisms and innovation achievements of this national resource-sharing platform for drug discovery.