A 2018 Chinese male group competition show, premiered on iQIYI. The trainees will have seal-offed training sessions recorded for a period of four months. On April 6, 2018, the nine highest ranked contestants debuted as NINE PERCENT.

Idol Producer brought together 100 trainees from different entertainment companies, talent agencies, both within and beyond China, and many also being independent trainees. The trainees were evaluated multiple times throughout the show for a period of four months by the audience's votes with trainees being eliminated. In the final episode, the nine most-voted-on trainees got to debut as a boy group and were set to promote for 18 months; The voting system is similar to those of South Korean reality television shows Produce 101 and Mix Nine.