Accompanied by Professor Yang Ye (Deputy Director of Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Professor Vladimir Popovic (State Secretary, the Minister level) and Dr. Nicola Tanic (Assistant Minister) from Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of The Republic of Serbia visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the afternoon of November 11, 2016. They were warmly greeted by Associate Professor Dehua Yang who briefed the honorable guests with the foundation principles, operating mechanisms and innovation achievements of this national resource-sharing platform for drug discovery which were highly appreciated.