A slide member according to the present invention includes: a substrate of at least one element selected from a group made up of V, Cr, Fe, Co, Ni, Zr, Nb, Mo, Ta, W, Ir and Pt; a gradient layer containing chromium and carbon formed on the substrate; and a hard carbon coating layer formed on the gradient layer, in which the graded layer has a component conformation comprising a gradually decreasing chromium concentration and gradually increasing carbon concentration from the substrate side to the hard carbon coating layer side, and the hard carbon coating layer contains aluminum.