the end of the year · year-end

All subscriptions must be paid before the end of this year.

Arriving at the end of each lunar year wasn't just a new day taking over from the previous one, but also a new year taking over from the previous one, and this was called 'first exchange'.

The bridge will be completed by the end of this year.

By the end of 2006, the number of rural netizens in China was twenty three million one hundred thousand, showing that in six months a total of fourteen million, three hundred thousand rural Chinese got online.