As more people were rescued with some having spent even more than seven days under rubble, the Beijing News calls for rescuers to keep on searching.

It says that the "golden 72 hours" for rescuing lives has already passed. Now, both survivors under the rubble and rescuers above are exhausted. Time has become their biggest enemy. However, neither should give up. There are still survivors being found everyday, and some of them even have very strong signs of life. They are the best explanation of life miracles, the paper says.

It also notes that when Pakistan was hit by a heavy earthquake in 2005, a survivor was found alive 27 days after the tremor. Such examples have proved that as long as people hold a strong will of survival, they will create miracles.

But the article also notes that as time creeps on, the difficulty of rescuing has greatly increased. But that doesn't mean there is nothing people can do now.

For example, in 1976 when the 7.8-magnitude rocked Tangshan, a populous city near Beijing, some survivors were found at midnight, because their weak voices can only be heard in the quiet of night. The paper therefore suggests the rescue forces calm down, clear their thoughts, and not to neglect any tiny signs of life.

The meaning of life lies in persistence, the paper says, echoing the words of Premier Wen Jiabao. He said, as long as there is a gleam of hope, we should make efforts 100 times greater than that.