China's dangerous air pollution isn't only confined to harm its residents. It has been found to be dangerously invoking more severe and frequent cyclones in the northwest Pacific.

Yuan Wang from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology said they noticed that in the middle of the 1990s, winter cyclones in latitudes began to pack in stronger winds and more rain because of the rising levels of particulate pollution coming from the factories in China.

"The dusty fallout affects how moisture develops in clouds and how heat is distributed in storm systems," Mr Yuan told AFP.

It was in the 1990s when China's economy started booming. As its industrial plants, power plants and automobiles started getting busy producing cheap products and items for the global populace, it likewise produced huge amounts of air pollutants.

In another study released by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, this same toxic dirty air has been found leaving China and travelling across the Pacific Oceans to the U.S.

The U.S. may have been able to divert the pollution in its homefront, but unfortunately the winds decided to bring it to them.

"We've outsourced our manufacturing and much of our pollution, but some of it is blowing back across the Pacific to haunt us," Steve Davis, co-author and a scientist at University of California Irvine, said.

The report noted that acid rain-inducing sulphate from the burning of fossil fuels in China on some days give off as much as 24 per cent of sulphate pollution in the western United States. The report was conducted by a team of Chinese and American researchers.

Drawing up a computer model to simulate pollution flowing from east Asia to a cyclonic breeding ground east of Japan, Mr Yuan and his team found there have been a clear rise in cyclone intensity from 2002-2011 compared to 1979-1988. The years 2002-2011 were the times China's growth peaked, while the years 1979-1988 were before the Asian economic boom happened.

From 2002-2011, no change in frequency of storms or location was observed.

The U.S. National Academy of Sciences report said that in 2006, 17 up to 36 per cent of various air pollutants in China came from the production of exports-based goods, where a fifth was bound for the U.S.

"International cooperation to reduce transboundary transport of air pollution must confront the question of who is responsible for emissions in one country during production of goods to support consumption in another," the report said.

According to environmental research group Worldwatch Institute, one-third of China's greenhouse gases comes from export-based industries.

Among the most well-travelled pollutant is black carbon. Travelling long distances aboard global winds, it is the predominating factor contributing to climate change. It is also linked to cancer, emphysema and heart and lung diseases.