Upper Cambrian-Lower Ordovician shoal-facies carbonate rocks are well developed in the Yangjiap-ing section, Shimen, Hunan, and their types are also highly varied. There are both monomictic shoal-facies rocks (e.g. sparite oolitic limestone and sparite calcarenite) and polymictic shoal-facies rocks (e.g. grainstone, whose grain types include sand- and pebble-sized fragments, bioclasts, oolites, algal mats etc.). What is different is that the Upper Cambrian shoal-facies rocks have been mostly strongly dolomitized into shoal-facies dolomite with various residual textures. This paper presents an in-depth study of various kinds of diagenesis and pore space evolution occurring in this section and suggests that the diagenetic sequences of shoal-facies rocks in the study area is dominantly of retrogressive type.