Accompanied by Dr. Stefan Lauterbach (Director) and Madam Wencke Vonderhagen of International Affairs Office, Professor Martin Biel (Academician of German Academy of Sciences, Director of Center for Drug Research), Professor Ernst Wagner and Dr. Stefan Zehler from Department of Pharmacy, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the morning of November 20, 2016. They were warmly greeted by Professor Ming-Wei Wang (Director of the National Center for Drug Screening/CNCL and Dean, School of Pharmacy, Fudan University). The honorable guests from Germany highly commended the foundation principles, operating mechanisms and innovation achievements of this national resource-sharing platform for drug discovery.