The year of 2018 was the first year of implementing the principles set forth at the 19th National Congress of the CPC. Summing up great achieve? ments and valuable experiences from 40 years of reform and opening up, the CPC Central Committee with Xi Jinping at the core has remained committed to bolstering reform and opening wider to the outside world, and has led people of all China's eth? nic groups on a march toward achieving the Two Centenary Goals.