The structural and electronic properties of bulk and (001) plane of TiC were investigated by the first-principles total-energy pseudopotential method based on density functional theory.The calculated bulk properties indicate that bonding nature in TiC is a combination of ionicity,covalency and metallicity,in which the Ti-C covalent bonding is the predominate one.The calculated results of structural relaxation and surface energy for TiC(001) slab indicate that slab with 7 layers shows bulk-like characteristic interiors,and the changes of slab occur on the outmost three layers,which shows that the relaxation only influences the top three layers.Meanwhile,the strong Ti-C covalent bonding can be found in the distribution of charge density on the (110) and (001) planes.Ti-C covalent bonding is enhanced by the charge depletion and accumulation in the vacuum and the interlayer region between top two atomic layers.