A gate driving circuit for a touch display device and configured for staggering a predetermined time for which the touch display device suspends operation between adjacent frames to be displayed, wherein the time for displaying a frame includes a display stage and a touch scanning stage, the gate driving circuit comprising a plurality of shift register units connected in cascade, wherein, the gate driving circuit further comprises: at least two delay shift modules, each delay shift module being connected between adjacent shift register units; and at least one cascaded shift register unit being further provided between the delay shift modules; a switch control module respectively connected with the delay shift modules, the switch control module being configured to control different delay shift modules to be connected between the adjacent shift register units between adjacent frames, and to enable transmission of a gate line drive signal to skip other delay shift modules not connected therein within each frame; the delay shift module being configured to suspend a clock signal connected with the delay shift module for a predetermined time when connected between the adjacent shift register units, to store the gate line drive signal from a shift register unit at an adjacent previous stage within the predetermined time for which the clock signal is suspended, and to transmit the gate line drive signal to a shift register unit at an adjacent next stage after the clock signal is restored, characterized in that the switch control module includes a group of switch elements corresponding to each of the delay shift modules, each group of switch elements being used for outputting a switch control signal to a delay shift module corresponding thereto, the switch control signal controlling the delay shift module to be connected between the adjacent shift register units, or enabling the transmission of the gate line drive signal to skip the delay shift module; and each group of switch elements include a first switch element and a second switch element; in a group of switch elements corresponding to a delay shift module between shift register unit at an (N-1)-th stage and that at an N-th stage, a first terminal of the first switch element and a first terminal of the second switch element are both connected with an output terminal of the shift register unit at the (N-1)-th stage; a second terminal of the first switch element is connected with an input terminal of the delay shift module; an output terminal of the delay shift module is connected with an input terminal of the shift register unit at the N-th stage; a second terminal of the second switch element is connected with an output terminal of the shift register unit at the N-th stage; a control terminal of the first switch element is connected with a first control signal line, and a control terminal of the second switch element is connected with a second control signal line. at least two delay shift modules, each delay shift module being connected between adjacent shift register units; and at least one cascaded shift register unit being further provided between the delay shift modules; a switch control module respectively connected with the delay shift modules, the switch control module being configured to control different delay shift modules to be connected between the adjacent shift register units between adjacent frames, and to enable transmission of a gate line drive signal to skip other delay shift modules not connected therein within each frame; the delay shift module being configured to suspend a clock signal connected with the delay shift module for a predetermined time when connected between the adjacent shift register units, to store the gate line drive signal from a shift register unit at an adjacent previous stage within the predetermined time for which the clock signal is suspended, and to transmit the gate line drive signal to a shift register unit at an adjacent next stage after the clock signal is restored, characterized in that the switch control module includes a group of switch elements corresponding to each of the delay shift modules, each group of switch elements being used for outputting a switch control signal to a delay shift module corresponding thereto, the switch control signal controlling the delay shift module to be connected between the adjacent shift register units, or enabling the transmission of the gate line drive signal to skip the delay shift module; and each group of switch elements include a first switch element and a second switch element; in a group of switch elements corresponding to a delay shift module between shift register unit at an (N-1)-th stage and that at an N-th stage, a first terminal of the first switch element and a first terminal of the second switch element are both connected with an output terminal of the shift register unit at the (N-1)-th stage; a second terminal of the first switch element is connected with an input terminal of the delay shift module; an output terminal of the delay shift module is connected with an input terminal of the shift register unit at the N-th stage; a second terminal of the second switch element is connected with an output terminal of the shift register unit at the N-th stage; a control terminal of the first switch element is connected with a first control signal line, and a control terminal of the second switch element is connected with a second control signal line.