Accompanied by Professor Hu Zhou (Professor of Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Professor Ruth Slack (Vice Dean), Dr. Alain Stintzi and Dr. Daniel Figeys （Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Canada) visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the morning of January 22, 2018. The honorable guests highly commended the foundation principles, operating mechanisms and innovation achievements of this national resource-sharing platform for drug discovery.