Heartwarming footage shows a deaf baby girl bursting into tears after hearing her mother for the first time with the help of a hearing implant.

The video recorded in the city of Fuzhou, in Fujian, China, shows the infant sitting in her mother's lap at the doctor's on March 27.

At the beginning of the clip, she can be seen suckling on a pacifier with a cochlear implant, a small electronic device that can provide a sense of sound to deaf people, attached to her scalp.

However, as her mum took the pacifier out of her mouth, and the doctor began talking to her, the little one shed tears upon experiencing sound for the very first time.

As her mum attempted to calm her down, the infant started to cry even louder.

Chinese media reported that the family had raised more than CNY 300,000 (GBP32,883) to fund the implant for their daughter who was born deaf.

The mum said: 'The moment the child heard, I also cried with joy.'