I bought 2 Norinco 213's for $89 each in 1992. I put one in the safe, and shot the other. I had over 55,000 rounds through it with no problems whatsoever, just performed routine maintenance, springs and the like. Nothing ever broke, no failures of any kind. It was my most accurate handgun. I recently gave it to my brother, I'm using the 2nd one now, still no problems.
I also bought one of the Romanian Toks that AIM was selling a while ago, another great gun. Only thing I don't like about the pistols are the added safeties. I just use the half-cock as a safety.
I had a couple of spare barrels for the 9x19 Norinco. I reamed out one barrel so as to be able to fire 9x23 Winchester in the Romanian (just needed the barrel and a 9mm barrel bushing). The 9x23 is the ballistic twin of the 357 Magnum. I get 357 Magnum power in an autoloader with more rounds, faster reloads, less recoil, and less muzzle blast. The second spare barrel enables me to fire 9x19 Luger in the Romanian Tok with just a barrel change. For better reliability you can get the Tok mags with an interior spacer to make the 9x19 feeding more reliable, but I haven't really found the shorter cartridges to be a feeding problem. I just give the magazine a smack to line up the cartridges before I insert it.