In the morning of June 1, 2018, Mr. Steven M. Rales, Chairman of Danaher Corporation (USA) ‒ the world’s largest manufacturer of medical, research and industrial instruments visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL). He was accompanied by Professor Raymond. C. Stevens (Director of iHuman Institute, ShanghaiTech University) and warmly received by Professor Ming-Wei Wang (Director of the National Center for Drug Screening/CNCL) and Professor Liming Shao (Director of Shanghai Center for iDrug Discovery and Development). Mr. Rales highly commended the founding principles, operating model and innovation achievements of this heavy-weight international resource platform for drug discovery.