Accompanied by Ms. Dongying Lu (Program Manager of Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences), a delegation of Yantai Municipal Government, Shandong Province visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the afternoon of May 22, 2020. It was led by Mr. Dailing Zhang (Vice Mayor) and delegates included Mr. Yongjun Li (Director of Yantai Municipal Science and Technology Bureau); Mr. Geng Li (Director of Yantai Investment Promotion Representative Office in Shanghai), Madam Hongling Yu (Deputy Director of the Management Committee of Yantai High-Tech Zone), Mr. Gang Zhang (Deputy Director of Yantai Investment Promotion Center) and Mr. Xiaowei Zhang (Director of Academic Collaboration of Yantai High-Tech Zone). The honorable guests highly commended the foundation principles, operating mechanisms and innovation achievements of this national resource-sharing platform for drug discovery.