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Presently, there are nine Chinese-Foreign universities marked with “legal person status (法人资格 in Chinese)” by the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China. These nine higher education institutions are the leading Chinese-Foreign universities in China, of which four of them are located in Guangdong province. By 2019, Chinese-Foreign universities in Guangdong province had produced eleven cohorts of graduates. It has been suggested in recent studies that, on average, these graduates enjoy a relatively higher salary in the first year of their employment compared to those who graduated from conventional Chinese universities. Does this imply that Chinese employers tend to value graduates produced by the Chinese-Foreign universities over those from conventional Chinese universities? Have the qualities sought in potential employees changed among Chinese employers? While the objectives of Chinese-Foreign universities have been understood as a more internationalized higher education institutions, little work has been published to address whether internationalized Chinese-Foreign universities give an education that is more relevant to society and industrial needs in Mainland China. In the eyes of Chinese employers, what are the qualities and skills of employees they are currently looking for in China's labor market? To answer the questions mentioned above, a survey with 100 first-line recruiters from 30 different industries in Guangdong province, China, has been conducted and examined in this paper.