Accompanied by Professor Yong Geng (Professor of Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Dr. Taolei Sun (Dean of Chemical & Life Science School, Wuhan University of Technology) and four of his associates visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the afternoon of January 9, 2019. The honorable guests highly commended the foundation principles, operating mechanisms and innovation achievements of this national resource-sharing platform for drug discovery.