鼓励城镇退役士兵自谋职业，是社会主义市场经济条件下安置退役士兵的新办法。近两年无锡市各级政府逐步推广城镇退役士兵自谋职业的实践证明，走这条路子是必要的、可行的，对缓解安置难矛盾起到了重要作用。 　　一、鼓励城镇退役士兵自谋职业的必要性 　　长期以来，政府指 Encouraging urban retired soldiers to seek employment on their own initiative is a new approach to placing demobilized soldiers under socialist market economy. The past two years, Wuxi municipal governments at all levels to promote the gradual retirement of soldiers in urban areas self-employment practice proved that taking this route is necessary and feasible to alleviate the contradiction of resettlement has played an important role. First, the need to encourage self-employment of retired soldiers in urban areas For a long time, the government pointed out