Hui Min Bei is now called Paula and the few words she can speak are in Spanish. She was born in Huizhou , southern China, but recently celebrated her second birthday in her new home, Barcelona.
Paula, abandoned outside an orphanage a few days after birth, has travelled more than 8,000km to start a new life with her adoptive parents, Nuria Boqueta de la Fuente and Fransesc Olive Pifarre.
Her story is a reflection of a growing phenomenon in Spain, which last year alone adopted 1,547 Chinese children - 90 per cent of whom were girls. Spain now adopts the highest number of Chinese children in the world.
As Paula's mother, Ms Boqueta, played with her daughter, she said: 'We have taken her to Chinese restaurants to see if she has retained any of the language, as some small children do, but there is no response. We will take her back to show her where she is from when she grows up.'
Paula's story is typical of thousands of Chinese children who have started new lives after being adopted by Spaniards in recent years. In a country whose birth rate is one of the lowest in Europe, all the signs are that the demand is steadily growing for infants from a country few Spaniards have visited.
The reasons for this phenomenon are complex. More Spaniards want to adopt as their birth rate is now 1.3 children per woman and the country now depends on a large immigrant intake to stop its population going into decline.