Accompanied by Prof. Hualiang Jiang and Prof. Caiguang Yang, Senior Editor of Nature Chemical Biology, Dr. Catherine Goodman, visited the Chinese National Compound Library in the morning of November 2, 2011. Prof. Ming-Wei Wang briefed her with the construction status, development strategy and cultural atmosphere of the library. Dr. Goodman was very impressed by this state-of-the-art research facility and expressed that she will continuously follow up its future developments.