NEGATIVE ELECTRODE OF RECHARGEABLE LITHIUM BATTERY AND RECHARGEABLE LITHIUM BATTERY INCLUDING SAME

Disclosed are a negative electrode for a rechargeable lithium battery, and a rechargeable lithium battery including the negative electrode. The negative electrode includes a current collector, a first active material layer on the current collector and including a first active material, and a second active material layer on the first active material layer and including a second active material. The first active material includes a Si-based active material and the first active material layer is non-oriented layer; and the second active material is crystalline carbon and the second active material layer is an oriented layer, or the first active material is crystalline carbon and the first active material layer is an oriented layer; and the second active material includes a Si-based active material and the second active material layer is a non-oriented layer.