Accompanied by Associate Professor Chuan Li (Deputy Director of Science and Technology Department) of Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor Duanqing Pei (Director), Professor Biliang Zhang, Professor Tianyu Zhang, Professor Donghai Wu, Madam Ting Li (Deputy Director of Research Management) and Madam Zhouping Huang (Supervisor of Research Management) from Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the afternoon of October 31, 2017. They were warmly received by Professor Ming-Wei Wang (Director of the National Center for Drug Screening/Chinese National Compound Library and Dean, School of Pharmacy, Fudan University) and Ms. Jia Wang (Senior Engineer). The honorable guests were deeply impressed by the operating mechanisms, service-oriented approaches and advanced technologies at CNCL.