The China Computer Federation Database Technical Committee (CCF DBTC) is one of the  societies of China Computer Federation (CCF). CCF is the largest national academic organization in China established in 1956. In 1977, database researchers formed a Database Group, a third level unit in the CCF hierarchy, under the Software Society of CCF. After 22 years, the group was upgraded to Database Society, a second level unit in CCF hierarchy, in August 1999. The aim of CCF DBTC is to promote research, development and application of database related technologies by uniting database researchers, vendors, practitioners, application developers and end users from the mainland of China, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and other overseas Chinese.