Accompanied by Professor Hong Liu (Professor of Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Drs. Jan Willem Wijnen (Executive Publisher Chemistry with Elsevier, The Netherlands) and Hervé Galons (Professor of Department of Organic Chemistry, The René Descartes University in Paris, France) visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the afternoon of March 26, 2019. The honorable guest highly commended the foundation principles, operating mechanisms and innovation achievements of this national resource-sharing platform for drug discovery.