That Beijing reporter notes that in the 1980s, when the "Little Tigers" became popular in China, Chinese record companies started to try to create their own teeny bopper idol bands.
一位大陸資深媒體工作者分析大陸地區「土產偶像」指出，早在八○年代小虎隊走紅大陸後，內地唱片公司就一直想自製偶像。