The invention relates to the technical field of packing equipment, in particular to an automatic folding and gluing apparatus for packing boxes, comprising a frame, a feeding device, a transfer manipulator, a glue box, a packing table, a feeding manipulator and a conveyer, the feeding device comprises a bottom plate, a plurality of fences and a lifting mechanism, the lifting mechanism comprises a lifting motor, a lifting bar and a lifting plate, the top end of the lifting bar is fixed to the lifting plate, top stickers are neatly stacked on the lifting plate, the lifting bar is connected with the lifting motor, the limiting motor can drive the lifting bar to move up, the lifting bar drives the lifting plate to move up, and thus the top stickers stacked on the lifting plate are lifted. A whole folding and gluing process is automated without manual operation, saving labor cost; the transfer manipulator sticks the top stickers to packing boxes with rarity of error occurrence, ensuring that the top stickers are stuck to same positions on each packing box and improving sticking quality of the top stickers.