Academic profession internationalisation is an important engine to promote higher education internationalisation, which can be analysed across four dimensions: international academic activities, cross-cultural concepts and contents, internationalisation attitudes and internationalisation knowledge and skills. The comparative analysis of the survey data between 2013 and 2023 reveals the trends and changes of academic profession internationalisation in China. In terms of international academic activities, international research activities remains a top priority for faculty; regarding cross-cultural concepts and contents, there has been limited progress in integrating domestic academic activities with international concepts and contents over the past decade; with respect to internationalisation attitudes, faculty members demonstrate a strong and persistent willingness to engage in internationalisation; concerning internationalisation knowledge and skills, there has been a notable improvement in internationalisation content knowledge, particularly evident in faculty's proficiency in foreign language communication.