Heartwarming footage has emerged of firefighters helping a cat owner persuade a cat down from up a 20-metre high tree in China.

The video, captured in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province last Friday, shows a firefighter, who has climbed up the tree, trying to use a stick to drive the cat down, but it doesn't work. Then, he tries to shake the tree and, eventually, the cat falls down.

According to local news, the cat can usually get down when it climbs trees, but this time it got stuck. tree, it didn't want to go back.

For the reason that it sounds scared children at night, people live nearby called firefighters for help.