Accompanied by Professor Zhaobing Gao (Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Professor Maurizio Taglialatela from University of Naples Federico II (Italy) visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the morning of May 15, 2018. The honorable guest toured the entire facility of CNCL and highly commended the foundation principles, operating mechanisms and innovation achievements of this national resource-sharing platform for drug discovery.