sentences:  Paul Yü Pin (Yu Bin) was born in Hailun, North East China, to Yu Shuiyuan () and Xiao Aimei.Orphaned at age 7, he was baptized in 1914 after encountering the missionary priests near Lansi, where he lived with his grandfather.Yu attended the provincial normal school in Heilongjiang, the Jesuit Aurora University in Shanghai, and the seminary in Kirin before going to Rome, where he studied at the Pontifical Urbaniana University (earning his doctorate in theology) and Pontifical Roman Athenaem "S. Apollinare".