To provide a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery which has high capacity and excels in cycle characteristics.

The nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes an anode having formed on an anode core body an anode active material layer which is composed of an anode active material and a binding agent. The anode active material contains silicon particles and/or silicon alloy particles, and the binding agent contains polyimide resin having a weight average molecular weight of 10,000-200,000 and polyvinylidene fluoride having a weight average molecular weight of 500,000-1,000,000, characterized in that the compounding ratio by weight of the polyimide resin in the anode active material layer is 5-10 mass%, and that the compounding ratio by weight of the polyvinylidene fluoride in the anode active material layer is 0.25-2 mass%.