On Sept 1, 2014, the State Council announced the first batch of 80 national-level memorial facilities and sites relating to the Chinese people's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1931-45) and the hall was the only selected memorial site in Sichuan.

Zhao, a local from Yibin, was a renowned heroine in the war.

In 1935, she was wounded and captured during combat as the political commissar of the Second Regiment of the First Division of the Third Army of the Northeast People's Revolutionary Army.

Due to repeated torture by the enemy, she was badly injured and sent to the then Harbin Municipal Hospital in today's Heilongjiang province for treatment under surveillance.

During her hospitalization, Zhao's patriotism moved her doctor Zhang Boyan, nurse Han Yongyi and guard Dong Xianxun.