Accompanied by Prof. JIANG Hualiang and Prof.YANG Caiguang, Senior Editor of Nature Chemical Biology, Dr. Catherine Goodman, visited the Chinese National Compound Library,Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, in the morning of November 2, 2011. Prof. WANG Mingwei 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.