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The China Computer Federation (中国计算机学会, CCF) is China's leading national professional society for computer science and information technology, and it has emerged as a central convening institution for academic, industrial, and policy discourse on digital humans (数字人) across the country. CCF channels its digital human engagement through a network of technical committees and recurring programs, including the TF114 Technical Forum dedicated to digital human generation and driving technology (数字人的生成与驱动技术), the fifteenth session of the CCF CTO Club focused on virtual digital humans (虚拟数字人), and the ongoing work of the CCF Virtual Reality and Visualization Technology Technical Committee (CCF虚拟现实与可视化技术专委会), the CCF Computer-Aided Design and Computer Graphics Technical Committee (CCF计算机辅助设计与图形学专委会), and the CCF Human-Computer Interaction Technical Committee (CCF人机交互专委会), each of which routinely programs sessions on virtual digital human modeling, driving, multimodal interaction, and industrial deployment. Through its CCF Digital Medicine Society (CCF数字医学分会), the federation organizes the annual CCF Digital Medicine Conference in Beijing and has advanced a proposed Medical Digital Human (医用数字人) initiative to investigate basic scientific questions and key technologies for digital humans in medical education, surgical planning, medical device design, and pharmaceutical research and development. CCF also confers the CCF Science and Technology Award (CCF科学技术奖), which has recognized industry contributions to the field such as Kuaishou Y-tech AI Laboratory's on-device real-time AI platform underpinning its digital human products. Regional branches and themed conferences extend this reach further, with the CCF Shenyang Branch (CCF沈阳分部) co-hosting AI-for-accessibility events featuring sign-language digital human (手语数字人) interaction demonstrations, the CCF Conference on Harmonious Human-Machine Environment (HHME) hosting dedicated forums on photorealistic digital humans and human-machine symbiosis, and the CCF Big Data and Computing Intelligence Contest (CCF BDCI) tracking commercial application research on China's virtual digital human industry. Through this layered structure of technical committees, regional branches, flagship conferences, awards, and student competitions, CCF functions as the principal national scholarly and professional infrastructure shaping the research agenda, technical evaluation criteria, and industry-academic networks of China's digital human field.