Are you able to activate it with autokms or pico? Great job playing around with that. Does it make calls to MarkMonitor through IP?
To have a country core edition of Windows 8, Not Windows 8 Pro and not just regular Windows 8 "Core" edition.
@ambidav, how did you activate your country specific edition? do you have a laptop that comes with Windows 8 for China originally?
HI, it seems to be activated with OEM DM keys, so possibly the key is from a laptop, but it is not required to be in china or have any relation to it for activating , it could be done from anywhere.
@ambidav I think the problem is caused by the MUI locked oemm keys. May be China Edition oemm keys can't (properly) activate CoreCountrySpecific if language is changed.