In the first half of 1999, the Hebei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and other institutions carried out a large-scale excavation in the east of the northern area of the Gejiazhuang site in Xingtai City. The work resulted in the revelation of a great number of ash-pits, cellars, sacrificial pits and tombs, as well as quantities of pottery, stone, bone, antler, shell and bronze objects and oracle bones and shells. The remains discovered can be divided into four phases with six stages: The first phase belongs to the late Longshan culture, and the second, third and fourth, to the pre-dynastic, middle and late Shang cultures respectively. The second and fourth fall into two stages either, but the richest in content is the third phase. The excavation has important academic value to studying the origin of the Shang people, the demarcation between the Xia and the Shang, and the chronology of the Shang's history.