Accompanied by Professor Zhiping Li (Director of Pharmacy Department, Children’s Hospital of Fudan University), Dr. Stuart M. MacLeod (Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Pediatrics, University of British Columbia, Canada) and his wife, Dr. Nancy McCullough visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the morning of November 15, 2016. They were warmly received by Professor Ming-Wei Wang (Dean, School of Pharmacy, Fudan University and Director, the National Center for Drug Screening/Chinese National Compound Library). Dr. Wang 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. Madam Ailian Zheng and Mr. Huanfang Guo (Director and Deputy Director of Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica Editorial Office, respectively) who were on a business trip in Shanghai joined the visit. Dr. Yu Liu (Assistant Dean), Dr. Limei Han (Research Affairs Assistant) and Ms. Lulu Zhai (Foreign Affairs Assistant) from Fudan School of Pharmacy were present.