In 2024, Guangdong submitted a report card with the regional gross product reaching a new level of 14 trillion yuan, total imports and exports increasing by 9.8%, industrial added value above the desi ...

See? “By” originally means “bye” or byway. That’s why, in fact, some people still spell “by the by” as “by the bye”. By the way, “that is by the by or bye” in this sense (secondary) is an idiom that ...