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China will introduce stricter air pollution standards from next year to monitor tiny floating pollution particles in Beijing and other big cities but may not start releasing the results to the public until 2016, state media said on Thursday.

Swathes of urban China from the capital in the north to Guangzhou in the far south have been shrouded in acrid smog for parts of the winter, forcing people to wear masks or even avoid stepping outside.

But in Beijing air pollution has officially been reported as "slight," although the United States' embassy, which issues its own measurement derived from U.S. standards, has at times shown air quality so poor it is off the scale.

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