Accompanied by Professor Zhaobing Gao (Assistant Director, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences), a delegation of the Science & Technology Bureau of Hainan Provincial People’s Government led by Madam Jing Xie (Director-General) visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the afternoon of July 15, 2020. The honorable guests highly commended the foundation principles, operating mechanisms and innovation achievements of this national resource-sharing platform for drug discovery.