“…China, as a context for this research, has witnessed a significant increase in the number of university graduates, reaching a record 11.58 million in 2023, driven by higher education expansion since 1998 (Chan and Zhang, 2021;Mok and Jiang, 2018;Xu and Ma, 2023). In recent years, factors such as shifting economic structures, geopolitical conflicts, and global chance events like the pandemic have brought WB and PE issues to the forefront (Brown et al, 2021;Mok, 2022). Although international students' perspectives in China and Chinese graduates abroad have received attention (e.g., Singh and Kaur, 2023;Tang and Jiang, 2023), the viewpoints of domestic students in China remain underrepresented in the higher education literature.…”