Yes that is the same student girl (actress) who died shortly after the abortion. She can be seen as a ghost roaming the place that got her killed. But I see that as a way of storytelling to show how Aunt Mei has got and is going to get further profited from a young girl's life when the wealthy Mr. Li comes looking for Mei and her dumplings, and how Mei's customers are also her accomplices and responsible for the evil that comes from eating aborted fetuses.
When the police is searching Mei's apartment, I believe the call from Mrs. Li is just a last attempt to get more of Mei's products, btw which is very stupid as she can see the police in the apartment. It is more likely that Mei saw on the news that the young girl's mother had tried to kill her husband for raping and inadvertently causing the girl to die after the abortion. So Mei escaped before the police came looking for her. She somehow crossed the border and went back to China. As she has become a fugitive in the end, she can no longer dress herself properly or even find a job, and has become a poor hawker.
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