Accompanied by Professor Jia Li (Director of Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences), a delegation of Yantai Municipality led by Mr. Shuping Zhang (Secretary of Yantai Municipal CCP committee, Shandong Province) visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the morning of June 15, 2020. The delegates included Mr. Sen Liu (Secretary of Working Committee of Yantai High-Tech Zone), Mrs. Xinzi Chen (Deputy Secretary General of Yantai Municipal Government), Mr. Geng Li (Director of Yantai Investment Promotion Representative Office in Shanghai) and Mrs. Hongling Yu (Deputy Director of the Management Committee 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.