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India and Pakistan both have followed a similar developmental strategy. The main similarities between the developmental strategies can be summed up as: 

i. India and Pakistan both have started their developmental programmes based on economic planning soon after their independence in 1947.

ii. Both the countries relied on the public sector for initiating the process of growth and development. 

iii. Both of them have followed the path of mixed economic structure involving the participation of both the state as well as the private sector. 

iv. Both of them introduced economic reforms at the same time to strengthen their economies. 

The Great Leap Forward (GLF) was a campaign initiated in 1958 in China. The aims of this campaign are as follows:

1. The aim of the campaign was to initiate large scale industrialisation in the country concentrating not only in the urban areas but also in the rural ones. 
2. The people in the urban areas were motivated to set up industries in their backyards.
3. In the rural areas, Commune System was implemented. Under this system, people were engaged in collective farming.