The invention provides a gate driving circuit and a display apparatus. The gate driving circuit includes 1st to Nth stage shift registers for respectively generating and sequentially outputting 1st to Nth stage scan signals to the display panel, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 4. Each of the shift registers is configured to receive a starting signal, and the starting signal is utilized to trigger the 1st and 2nd stage shift registers to generate the 1st and 2nd stage scan signals respectively, and the starting signal is utilized to reset the 3rd to Nth stage shift registers.