They are Leng Yun, instructor of the women's regiment of the 5th Army of the 2nd Route Army, Hu Xiuzhi and Yang, squad leaders, soldiers, Huang Guiqing and He, and Anshun Fu, director of the garment factory. Leng Yun, the oldest of them, is 23 years old, and Wang Huimin, the youngest, is only 13 years old.
Eight female soldiers sacrificed their young lives for the liberation of the Chinese nation, wrote a magnificent chapter of "Eight Women Throwing into the River", and held the foundation stone laying ceremony of "Eight Women Throwing into the River Monument" in Mudanjiang on September 7th. 1986. Kang Keqing, then vice chairman of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and chairman of the All-China Women's Federation, laid the foundation stone for the project, and wrote an inscription: "Eight women, immortal!" . On September 4th, 2009, they were named as one of the 100 hero models who made outstanding contributions to the founding of New China.