In the morning of August 15, 2018, Mr. Glyn Williams, Vice President of IDBS (UK), a well-known informatics software developer, visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL). He was accompanied by Mr. Jun Gao, General Manager of Inforstack Shanghai Co., Ltd. Mr. Williams highly commended the founding principles, operating model and innovation achievements of this heavy-weight international resource platform for drug discovery.