The Tongde Hall was designed in 1935. It was start to construct in early 1937 and finished at the end of 1938.

  The name "Tongde Hall" is taking the name of "the same heart and the same virtue", which means "Japan and Manchu have the same mind".

  After the establishment of the Puppet Manchukuo, the Japanese had Changchun all planned. They designated Changchun as the capital and renamed it "Xinjing".

  Located in Changchun, "Xinhua Village," the new palace project has only completed part of the foundation and then stopped building because of the Japanese tight expenditure in the Pacific War.

  Considering that the new palace is difficult to complete in a short period of time, they built this temporary palace.

  Soon after Puyi was controlled by puppet regime in 1932, the Japanese chose the office of the former Jilin-Heilongjiang Exclusive Transportation Bureau as Puyi's palace and office.

  In order to make Puyi feel the Japanese attention to him and and his prestige as an emperor, the Japanese Yoshioka proposed to build a palace for Puyi, which is the Tongde Hall now. Puyi agreed at the beginning.

  Puyi doubted that the Japanese first proposed that the building of Tongde Hall was to install a wiretap in the new hall. Although Puyi agreed to build the new hall of the pseudo-imperial palace, he did not live in after it was completed.