Accompanied by Professor Ming-Wei Wang (Director of the National Center for Drug Screening/Chinese National Compound Library and Dean of School of Pharmacy, Fudan University) and Professor Yechun Xu of Drug Discovery and Design Center, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor Tony Futerman, Professor Israel Silman and Professor Joel Sussman from Weizmann Institute of Science ( Rehovot, Israel) visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the afternoon of March 22, 2017. Dr. Wang briefed the honorable guests with the development status, cultural environment and future prospect of CNCL. They were deeply impressed by the advanced level of this state-run R&D facility.