Business English as a lingua franca (BELF)is characteristic of institutional constraints and multiculturality, the pragmatic competence thus demonstrates uniqueness in exploiting language resources and constructing common knowledge. This article conceptualizes intercultural pragmatic competence in BELF after reviewing the development of pragmatic competence from a monolingual and monocultural context to a multilingual and multicultural one;it then explores four institutional characteristics of BELF. With examples drawn from the VOICE, it further examines the task-oriented employment of language resources and the construction of intercultures for seeking and creating common ground in BELF meetings.