Opening strategy for XianQi completely alludes me. What are some good first moves and general objectives to accomplish in the early stages of the game?

I've read a little about it, asked stronger players for advices, played quite a lot of games, and I feel that I still do not understand it at all ;) But you can start with this article: http://www.xqinenglish.com/theanatomyofxiangqipart1.html