I have a friend who has a norinco 1911. It's been quite some time since I looked at it, but, as I recall, most 1911 parts fit.
I'd try a regular 1911 extractor.
At least take the broken one along to compare if you can find a local replacement.
Standard 70 series type extractor should fit fine; most of the extractor breaks I've seen came from 1) the habit of putting a round in the chamber and dropping the slide into battery prior to seating the magazine - the feed is actually a controlled round feed with the blade/hook of the extractor sliding up under the cartridge rim during the transition out of the magazine - doing the above forces the extractor head out and over the rim inducing stress it wasn't really designed for - that's the difference between the initial 1911 design of the internal extractor verses the later use of pinned external designs such as the S&W; 2) using steel cased ammo (not as common but I have seen it. - I believe it's due to harder extraction force required)
I'm sure some are manufactured parts that are improperly tempered and are brittle causing a break - just never personally witnessed one I felt was due to a fault. Though I will say the few Norinco's I have experience with seemed to be of harder steel.
A good 1911 'smith will 'tune' the extractor by shaping (slightly rounding/reducing) the very lower edge of the extractor hook. A properly tuned extractor is thing of beauty - Standing in one spot I could usually dump all the brass out of a magazine in a two-to-three foot circle one step to the right and one step back in my race guns I used compete with.
When I installed 1911 extractors, I radiused/polished the lower part of the hook and groove, and set the tension.
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