CNN CNN Newsroom Live October 30, 2015 05:21:00
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 th...