As a highly developed artificial intelligence, ChatGPT has naturally attracted widespread attention from foreign language educators. Some researchers have attempted to apply it to teaching practices of courses such as translation and second language writing. However, given that the strength of ChatGPT seems to be mainly reflected in its ability to collect and generate data, as well as its ability to learn and integrate information, a question worth answering is whether ChatGPT can be used for second language pragmatic teaching aimed at cultivating pragmatic competence involving appropriate language use and, if possible, how it can be used to empower second language pragmatic teaching. This article aims to demonstrate, based on teaching and testing practice, that ChatGPT can fully empower second language pragmatic teaching. With the help of various activity designs, it can play an important supporting role in cultivating students second language pragma linguistic competence and second language sociopragmatic competence. Finally, the article points out several noteworthy issues on how to use ChatGPT in second language pragmatics teaching.