China's booming economy is changing the face of its culture. Western influences can be seen However many problems China's One Child Policy may have produced since its conception, it has still done its job. The goal of the policy was to slow population growth in a nation of more than a billion people. That it has done. The policy has reduced growth by an estimated 300 million people, and that does not even count the unfortunate victims of an effectual genocide. China's growth is slowing, and it will peak, for it cannot grow indefinitely. When it does, perhaps this policy can be halted. Perhaps China will have changed enough to not need it. However, until then, the One Child Policy is likely to stay in place, continuing to perform the task it was designed for, if with some rather severe and unfortunate side effects.