Chinese Premier Li Qiang said Monday that China stands ready to work with the international community to get the world economy back on track at an early date.

Li made the remarks during a meeting with Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on the sidelines of the 17th BRICS Summit.

Global trade has undergone significant changes amid rising unilateralism and protectionism, which have severely impacted the international economic and trade order and posed grave challenges to the world economy and countries' development, said Li.

Against this backdrop, the international community is calling more strongly for the safeguarding of the multilateral trading system and has growing expectations for the WTO to play a more active role, he added.

Noting that economic globalization is an irreversible trend of history, Li said China will, as always, continue to uphold and practice multilateralism and free trade, actively support the reform and development of the WTO to restore its authority, accelerate the improvement of trade rules, and push for more concrete outcomes at the 14th WTO Ministerial Conference.

Li said China has abundant resources and means to counter adverse external impacts, and is confident in its ability to promote steady and healthy economic development.

This year, China has implemented more proactive and effective macro policies, advanced the strategy of expanding domestic demand, and launched special initiatives to boost consumption, he said, noting the huge and growing demand unleashed by the super-large market of over 1.4 billion consumers.

Li added that China will introduce more voluntary and unilateral measures to open up, strictly abide by the principles and market rules of the WTO, and continue to share development opportunities with other countries to inject positive energy into the world.