china's population right now is more than 1.3 billion. steven jane joins me now live in beijing. he is an only child himself. so i guess steven when you heard the news from the communist party, did it come as much of a surprise to you and i guess the rest of the country? >> well, it was more surreal moment when it was reporting the breaking news as a member of the first generation of that policy talking about the end of that policy. now, when i was growing up in shanghai in the '80 s, we accepted this policy as a matter of fact. we were taught about it and we bought the government line that the millions of preventive births because of this policy helped china grow its economy and improve its people's living standards. so it was not until years later that i found out the more sinist sinister, the darker side of this policy, especially in terms of the brutal enforcements in the country side. we're talking about forced