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In bioinformatics, many critical tasks, including drug discovery and protein\u2013ligand interaction analysis, rely heavily on molecular activity prediction, where functional substructures play a decisive role in shaping molecular activities. However, existing explanation methods rely on the features of nodes and edges generated by the GCN model, while overlooking the critical structural information within the graph. On the other hand, how to ensure the compactness of the explanation methods also needs to be solved. To address these issues, we propose GTCExplainer in this paper. The Graph Transformer is introduced to capture more comprehensive graph data information, and a hierarchical edge selector is designed to select suitable edges for the explanation. In addition, a substructure reward mechanism is proposed to generate rewards that ensure the explanation's compactness while including key structures closely related to the molecular activity prediction of the GCN model. 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