Manganese and chromium oxides promote the NH -SCR activity of Zr-Ce mixed oxide. Cr-Zr-Ce mixed oxide exhibited>80% NO conversion at a wide temperature window. More acid sites and higher reducibility may responsible for the high SCR ability. Chromium oxide and manganese oxide promoted ZrO -CeO catalysts were prepared by a homogeneous precipitation method for the selective catalytic reduction of NO with NH . A series of characterization including X-ray diffraction (XRD), high-resolution transmission electron microscope (HR-TEM), Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET) surface area analysis, H temperature-programmed reduction (H -TPR), and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) were used to evaluate the influence of the physicochemical properties on NH -SCR activity. Cr-Zr-Ce and Mn-Zr-Ce catalysts are much more active than ZrO -CeO binary oxide for the low temperature NH -SCR, mainly because of the high specific surface area, more surface oxygen species, improved reducibility derived from synergistic effect among different elements. Mn-Zr-Ce catalyst exhibited high tolerance to SO and H O. Cr-Zr-Ce mixed oxide exhibited>80% NO conversion at a wide temperature window of 100°C–300°C. DRIFT studies showed that the addition of Cr is beneficial to the formation of Bronsted acid sites and prevents the formation of stable nitrate species because of the presence of Cr . The present mixed oxide can be a candidate for the low temperature abatement of NO .