Electrochemical nitrate reduction to ammonia is attractive for green fertilizer synthesis and pollution remediation, yet its performance is normally hindered by the mismatched generation and consumption of active hydrogen (*H). Here, we engineer the planar chloride coordination to break the local symmetry of Cu single atoms over oxygen‐deficient WO 3‐x , forming Cu 1 Cl–WO 3‐ x with Cu–O/Cl and Cu–Cl–W motifs to enable dual interfacial relay of *H and *NO 2 derived intermediates. The Cu 1 Cl–WO 3‐ x catalyst achieves an NH 3 Faradaic efficiency of 99.7% at −0.8 V versus the reversible hydrogen electrode and delivers an NH 3 yield rate up to 63.6 mg h −1 cm −2 at −0.9 V with stable operation. In situ electrochemical characterization and theoretical calculations reveal that the asymmetric Cu–Cl–W interface promotes water dissociation and *H relay, while facilitating thermodynamically favorable *NO 2 relocation and subsequent hydrogenation, thereby shifting the potential‐determining step and lowering the overall energy barrier. This dual‐relay strategy might offer a generic route toward efficient NO 3 − ‐to‐NH 3 electrosynthesis.
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